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Alpha Gamma Delta History A History of Sigma Chapter of Alpha Gamma Delta, 1917-2006 Kate Meehan Pedrotty, Greek Chapter Housing History Project March 2, 2007 Information courtesy of University of Illinois Archives and the Society for the Preservation of Greek Housing This history was produced as part of the Society for the Preservation of Greek Housing’s Greek Chapter History Project. The Society was founded in 1988, with the goal of preserving the historic buildings that embody the history of the nation’s largest Greek system, and educating the public about the historical significance of fraternities and sororities on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus. Dues paid by member fraternity and sorority chapters and donations from chapter alumni fund the Society’s work. In keeping with their mission, the Society began the Greek Chapter History Project in May 2000 in conjunction with the University of Illinois Archives. The GCHP aims for nothing less than producing a complete historical record of fraternities and sororities on the University of Illinois campus by employing a graduate assistant to research and write histories of campus chapters. Making the work possible are the extensive collections of the University of Illinois Archives, especially its Student Life and Culture Archival Program. Supported by an endowment from the Stewart S. Howe Foundation, the heart of the SLC Archives is the Stewart S. Howe collection, the world’s largest collection of material related to fraternities and sororities. 2007 The Society for the Preservation of Greek Housing and the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. All rights reserved. The National Organization Alpha Gamma Delta, a fraternal organization for women (“sorority”), was founded at Syracuse University in 1904. At the time of its founding, there were sixteen “national” fraternities for women, although only twelve of them had more than one chapter. Georgia Dickover, one of the undergraduate founders of Alpha Gamma Delta and later a historian of the organization, noted an increase in fraternity formation – for both men and women – in the early years of the twentieth century, and attributed this minor explosion to a corresponding increase in college and university enrollment. 1 At Syracuse, as at other institutions of higher learning, young people gathered to be educated not only intellectually but also socially. Social and honorary fraternities played an integral role in the collegiate experience, and higher enrollments brought the need for even more organizations designed to present students with a set of appropriate peers and social activities. Alpha Gamma Delta’s founding helped to fulfill this need. Along with Georgia Dickover, sisters Marguerite and Estelle Shepard, Jennie Clara Titus, Ethel Brown, Grace Mosher, Edith MacConnell, Mary Louise Snider, Georgia Otis Chipman, Emily Butterfield, and Flora Knight Mayer are hailed as the founders of Alpha Gamma Delta, and indeed these young women were the moving force behind the birth of the society – even Edith MacConnell, who contributed her energies from a hospital bed while she recuperated from injuries sustained in an accident “on the ice!” 2 The initial suggestion to form a new fraternity for women at Syracuse, however, came from Dr. Wellesley Perry Coddington, head of the department of philosophy and psychology. Dr. Coddington, a native New Yorker and a graduate of Wesleyan University, was a “fraternity man” himself – he was involved in Eclectic Fraternity, 1 Georgia A. Dickover, ed. Alpha Gamma Delta Quarterly (January 1931, History Issue) . Menasha, Wisconsin: George Banta Publishing Company, pg. 1. 2 Phi Nu Theta, and Phi Beta Kappa as a student. He was also one of the first five faculty members of Syracuse when it was founded in 1871, and seems to have taken a keen interest in both the intellectual and social development of its students, both men and women. Coddington’s own college experience led him to look very favorably on fraternities in particular, and Georgia Dickover reported that he encouraged many Syracuse students to take the initiative to form new societies. 3 By 1900 there were seven national fraternities for men and six for women on the Syracuse campus, but Coddington believed that the university’ steadily growing enrollment could support more. He worried especially that the six existing women’s fraternities could not absorb the rising women’s enrollment, and that many promising young women were being prevented from experiencing the attributes of fraternal life that he himself had so enjoyed. Georgia Dickover soon had the opportunity to see Dr. Coddington’s encouragement at work first hand, when she was one of the first three undergraduate women to become involved in the effort to found a seventh women’s fraternity at Syracuse – the society which would eventually become Alpha Gamma Delta. Dr. Coddington first broached the subject in the spring of 1904 with Marguerite Shepard, a member of the class of 1905 who was not currently involved with a social fraternity. Marguerite responded hesitantly at first, but when her younger sister Estelle caught wind of Dr. Coddington’s proposal, she proved much more enthusiastic and recruited her close friend Dickover to the cause. Dr. Coddington suggested that they also invite one of his students, Jennie Clara Titus, to attend planning meetings. Eventually this small group assembled for meetings in Coddington’s home, and it was in his study that the purpose and spirit of Alpha Gamma Delta began to truly take shape. 2 From www.alphagammadelta.org , accessed July 3, 2006. 3 Dickover, pp. 2. 3 The early meetings actually proved something of a shock to the undergraduate women who had been hand-picked by Dr. Coddington to undertake this project, because his vision of “the project” was more ambitious than they had originally guessed. Coddington’s proposal to the Shepard sisters, Dickover, and Titus was certainly motivated primarily by his desire to provide Syracuse University women with additional outlets for camaraderie and social interaction, but he believed that their efforts could result in something much larger. As he told the women at the first meeting, he was confident that with much hard work and planning on their part, they could create a new national fraternity for women, not just a local organization confined to the Syracuse campus. Dickover’s history of this period, written in the 1930s, continually references the apprehension with which she and the other founders received Coddington’s suggestion, although the exact sources of their hesitancy are not entirely clear. There is some indication that Marguerite Shepard in particular feared that the competition among women’s fraternities on the Syracuse campus was already too great to allow an “upstart” society to break into the social arena, and perhaps this difficulty at the immediate local level made the prospects for eventual national expansion and organization seem very slim indeed. Many years later, Shepard remarked, “Would any group of college girls today think they could successfully launch a new fraternity without a single party dress or a dance?” 4 Whatever their reservations were, the founders were able to put them aside and set themselves to work under Dr. Coddington’s direction. In May 1904, three more women joined the founding group: Ethel Brown, Grace Mosher, and Edith MacConnell from her bed in the Homeopathic Hospital. The entire group continued to hold regular meetings in Dr. Coddington’s home and hammered out such details as the fraternity motto, the colors (red, buff, and green), and the badge (“a monogram of the three letters with the 4 Dickover, pg. 10. 4 Alpha chased and a little larger than the other letters, the Gamma plain, and the Delta set with half pearls”). 5 Georgia Dickover confessed in her history, however, that at times nothing very concrete was accomplished at these meetings, as during one when “the girls listened while in his own fascinating style Dr. Coddington spent an hour or more telling anecdotes of college and fraternity experiences.” 6 Dickover’s description of Dr. Coddington “holding court” in his study gives us a glimpse into what must have been the rather complicated dynamics of Alpha Gamma Delta’s founding, a process that seems to have been closely shepherded by a man with genuine interest in empowering and enriching his female students but that still played out, as might be expected, within a very traditional paternalist framework. Despite their continuing hesitancy about the potential success of their endeavor, the women were “inspired with purpose, courage, and fraternity spirit enough to remove mountains if necessary,” and their hard work came to fruition on May 30, 1904, which is recognized as the formal founding date of Alpha Gamma Delta. 7 The meeting took place in Dr. Coddington’s study, as had the previous ones, but at this special gathering the chapter constitution and by-laws were read and adopted, fraternity badges were first worn, and officers were elected for the coming year. Jennie Clara Titus, the student who had been especially recommended by Dr. Coddington himself, was elected as the first president of the group. A brief note in the Syracuse Daily Orange announced Alpha Gamma Delta’s founding to the university community shortly afterwards. Organizational meetings continued to be held in the fall of 1904, and Dr. Coddington remained closely involved with the new fraternity and its members, suggesting 5 Dickover, pg. 281. Georgia Dickover described Alpha Gamma Delta’s first badge in this way, but also noted that after a few months the fraternity “disapproved” of this design because of the prominence of the Delta. In 1905, Alpha Chapter selected the present badge from a design submitted by Mr. J.F. Newman, a jeweler in New York. The second, and current, badge features a plain Delta, a chased Gamma, and an Alpha set with pearls or diamonds superimposed on the other two letters.
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